Urban Politics of Human Rights
Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of huma...
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| description | Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book.
An international line-up of contributors with long-term engagement in this field shed light on these politics in cities on four continents and eight cities, presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary theoreticalisation perspectives. They analyse the ‘city society’, the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights engagement in today’s globalised and often deeply unequal cities characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities that rally around concepts as the ‘right to the city’. Most importantly, the chapters highlight the conditions under which this mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing or – in times of COVID – health care.
Urban Politics of Human Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, and at times also truly promising interrelationship between human rights and the urban. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-939212025-08-13T13:41:32Z Urban Politics of Human Rights Nijman, Janne Oomen, Barbara Durmuş, Elif Miellet, Sara Roodenburg, Lisa Cities;Human Rights;Human Rights Cities;Local Government;Mobilisation;Moral Urbanism;Planetary Urbanisation;Right to the City;Urban Justice;Urban Law;Urban Politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspirations, or to protect vested (private) interests. The potential and the pitfalls of these processes are conditioned by the urban, and deeply political. These urban politics of human rights are at the heart of this book. An international line-up of contributors with long-term engagement in this field shed light on these politics in cities on four continents and eight cities, presenting a wealth of empirical detail and disciplinary theoreticalisation perspectives. They analyse the ‘city society’, the urban actors involved, and the mechanisms of human rights mobilisation. In doing so, they show the commonalities in rights engagement in today’s globalised and often deeply unequal cities characterised by urban law, private capital but also communities that rally around concepts as the ‘right to the city’. Most importantly, the chapters highlight the conditions under which this mobilisation truly contributes to social justice, be it concerning the simple right to presence, cultural rights, accessible housing or – in times of COVID – health care. Urban Politics of Human Rights provides indispensable reading for anyone with a practical or theoretical interest in the complex, deeply political, and at times also truly promising interrelationship between human rights and the urban. 2022-11-19T04:01:35Z 2022-11-19T04:01:35Z 2022-11-18T14:04:40Z 2023 book OCN: 1341211507 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59304 9781000774672 9781032299037 9781032325439 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93921 eng Cities and Global Governance open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/59304/1/9781000774672.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/59304/1/9781000774672.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/59304/1/9781000774672.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003315544 10.4324/9781003315544 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781000774672 9781032299037 9781032325439 Routledge 249 open access |
| spellingShingle | Cities;Human Rights;Human Rights Cities;Local Government;Mobilisation;Moral Urbanism;Planetary Urbanisation;Right to the City;Urban Justice;Urban Law;Urban Politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights Urban Politics of Human Rights |
| title | Urban Politics of Human Rights |
| title_full | Urban Politics of Human Rights |
| title_fullStr | Urban Politics of Human Rights |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban Politics of Human Rights |
| title_short | Urban Politics of Human Rights |
| title_sort | urban politics of human rights |
| topic | Cities;Human Rights;Human Rights Cities;Local Government;Mobilisation;Moral Urbanism;Planetary Urbanisation;Right to the City;Urban Justice;Urban Law;Urban Politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights |
| topic_facet | Cities;Human Rights;Human Rights Cities;Local Government;Mobilisation;Moral Urbanism;Planetary Urbanisation;Right to the City;Urban Justice;Urban Law;Urban Politics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights |
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